The technical director of Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Samuel Onikeku has hailed the just concluded National Sports Festival in Ogun State for the large array of new track and field talents it produced.
Onikeku was mostly thrilled seeing new champions emerge for the male and female sprints as well as quarter-mile races, which he described as a very good sign ahead of this year’s World Athletics Championship in Tokyo, Japan.
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Onikeku added, “It has been very interesting. I’ve always had confidence in the enormous talents that we have in this country.
“In majority of the major events, we’ve seen new champions emerge. We saw new champions in 100m men and women, as well as 400m men and women, with equally fantastic times.”
The AFN’s technical buff ended with an enthusiastic projection that the most promising implication from results seen in the athletics events of Gateway Games 2025 is the possibility of better international representation for Nigeria in years to come.
“We are very, very happy with the progress of our athletes that have raced here. It shows that, when we are ready to seek qualifications for some events at the World Championships in Japan, we are confident that we have a lot of athletes to choose from, and we’ll go with the best to qualify Nigeria,” Onikeku assured.
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